Dive Mirror Novels & Stories

Beyond a line of surfboards staked like bright spears, the Goldfish Dive School sprawled across a low, breezy building—wide eaves, shade sails, the slap-slap of water echoing from the training pool out back. A string of chalkboard signs leaned against the front window: TRY DIVE TODAY — NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED WRECK WEEKEND: HMAS BRISBANE NIGHT DIVE — BYO NERVES Inside, the world cooled: rubber and neoprene, compressor oil, salt-dried masks, the sweet tang of pineapple in somebody’s smoothie. Cylinders stood at attention along a wall, each crowned with a scribbled nitrox fraction. A compressor thumped behind a mesh cage—steady, mechanical, reassuring.

Climbing down to the deck, he grabbed the GoPro from his bag, hit record, aimed it toward the stern, and wedged the hand-grip into a rod holder on the side of the flybridge. Alex was up first, followed by Jessi, and finally Trish. "How was it?" Judd asked, reaching to take Alex's tank. He placed it on the deck as Alex hoisted himself onto the dive platform. From his seated position, he took Trish's tank and handed it to Judd before reaching for Jessi's, as Trish climbed out of the water.

He sighed. *sigh* And raised a hand to massage his temples. "A class 4 dark artifact…" He mumbled, and Director Bones asked about it. "What is it?" "The Mirror of Erised. Is an artifact that shows in its reflection the deepest desire that the person looking at has. Until here there would be no problems, but the mirror entrances the user and viewer to continue looking at its reflection and do nothing more. This mirror killed a lot of people by starvation simply by showing them their deepest desire being realised."

Adrian's expression fell. "What are you looking at? I barely escaped with my life from that place. Don't feel bad for my sorry state. Those souls didn't fare any better." Thalia glared at Adrian and the others, taking out a pitch-black bronze mirror from its bosom. Besides a deep and non-reflective surface, the mirror was also carved with dark dragon patterns. "This mirror can reflect dragon souls. Although she’s still transforming, she can use this to leave the magma pool," Thalia explained.

"Why?" "I'm going to summon Darcy, she could help," Ann brought out her pretty seashell mirror and threw it to me. I caught it and opened the shell. The mirror was made out of still water, not frozen, still liquid but not moving either. It means I didn't need to get it wet. Darcy appeared with a big grin. "Hello, me, again," she said playfully. "How may I help you?" "Look at this," I turned the mirror to the barrier. "How do I get across?" I turned the mirror back to me.

A document titled: “Operation Mirrorfall – Preventing Tyranny in Transparency” Spread across ten countries. At noon, Sophie assembled her top five. Richard. Rachel. Dario. Camellia. DevSec lead Mira Jensen. “Davenport’s embedded deep,” she said. “The only way to cut him off completely is to sever the Phoenix-Vault live bridge.” Richard frowned. “That’s dangerous. Vault syncs citizen safety protocols globally.” “If we do it slowly,” Mira offered, “we can offload into MirrorGhost—a passive node. Temporary. Still visible.”

Kai walked up to the pulpit while Miera stood by the side watching with a slight smile on her face. “Take the covers off Kai,” Miera said and Kai peeled off the red cloth. “What is this?” I asked as the last covering fell off revealing the rest of the human sized mirror. Miera turned to me. “This is a mirror of time.” she said.

“Now I can scrutinize myself freely” Mane remarked as he stood within the walls of the relatively large bathroom. There was a bucket of water right next to him, and a large rectangular crystal called a Reflection Crystal bound to the wall that served a similar function to a mirror. Although the image that appeared in the crystal wasn’t as clear as a mirror image, it was pretty good and would serve the purpose for which Mane wanted it to.

“Search for 5 kilometers round. Now.” A small magic circle glowed golden on top of the mirror. The surface then wrinkled and turned a milky color. When the color settled, the mirror showed an image of a big nose. “Someone is in possession of it.” said Dorin. “Can you blow it up?” asked Seb, his voice dead serious. “What if someone just innocently picked it up?” Dorin asked surprised at his friend’s request. “It might be a kid, or a janitor, or something...”

Something like grief reflected in his eyes and my body shuddered, trying to take me away from delirium, however, I was held by that network of thoughts and Miguel said: "There is an artifact called a water mirror in the dungeons of this castle, it was made as a perfect mold of the same that exists where I live. In the world I live in," he clarified, quickly looking away to see if his friends were still oblivious to all the dialogue that only Miguel could hear. “Go to the mirror. Its waters are healing." "I can't move," I replied, and our eyes closed for a second when I returned to my own body abruptly, losing the strength of my own consciousness.